These are a few of my favourite things…

Books and Stories: The Secret History, A Gentleman In Moscow, What A Carve Up!, The Little Stranger, Any Human Heart, Nineteen Eighty-four, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Rebecca, American Psycho, High Rise, Lolita, Middlesex, The Yellow Wallpaper

Films: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover, Manhattan, The Lives Of Others, The Ice Storm, Europa, Last Year At Marienbad, The Conformist, Festen, The Shining

Music: David Bowie, Serge Gainsbourg, Goldfrapp, Dusty Springfield, Bach, Philip Glass, Gotan Project, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s 7th, Natacha Atlas, Mahler’s 5th

Can’t Live Without: Moleskine notebooks, reading in the bath, rose facial oil

Guilty Pleasures: Eating Green Giant sweetcorn from the can